Cigabette-case



J. DENEMARK. cls/mem CASE.'

Patented June 3, 1919.

APPLICATION FILED 1ML-23| 19T9.

INVENTOR @m enemr]- BY, Y

ATTORNEY JACOB DENEMARK, OF TREN'ION, NEW JERSEY.

CIGARETTE-CASE. i

Specification of Letters Patent.V

Patented June 3, 1912.V

Application lerl January 23, 1919. Serial No. 272,630.V

To all whom t may concern.'

a citizen of Russia, residing at Trenton, Mercer county, State of New Jersey, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Cigarette-Cases, of which the following is a full, clear, and exact description.

This invention relates to improvements in cigarette cases, the principall object being to provide novel and eflicient means to eject the cigarettes, one by one, from the case. To accomplish this result, 1 provide a rotatable receiver having an ejecting device, or more strictly speaking, means to raise the cigarette at one end thereof to facilitate the grasping of the same. @ther features of improvements will hereinafter appear.

I will now describe my invention in detail, and refer to the accompanying drawing, wherein Figure 1 is a top plan view of the case, the cover being removed;

Fig. 2 is an enlarged longitudinal sec: tional view thereof, certain parts being illustrated in elevation, the section being taken on a line 2-2 in Fig. 1;

Fig. 8 is an enlarged cross sectional view, taken on line 3-3, Fig. 1, looking toward the right;

Fig. 4 is an enlarged fragmentary longitudinal sectional view of the cigarette receiver; and

Fig. 5 is an enlarged perspective view of the cigarette tilting arm. Y

My improved cigarette case comprises a suitable box 6 closed at one end 7 and open at the opposite end, as at 8, which I will term the ej ecting end of the box. The box is provided with a cover 9 hinged as at 10 to a fixed cover-plate 11. The cover 9 carries a hasp 12 to be engaged by any suitable locking tongue, not shown in detail, but indicated by 13 in Fig. l. Within the box I slidably mount a pusher 14 actuated by a spring 15 to force the cigarettes into theV rotatable semi-cylindrical receiver 16, which carries trunnions 17 and 18 which are located eccentric to the axis of the receiver. The trunnions 17 and 18 are rotatably supported by the box 6, their points of bearing being concentric with the axis ofthe cylindrical end 8 of the box. To rotate the receiver, the trunnion 18 is provided with a thumb-wheel 19. One of the features of my invention' is' the tilting lever or arm 2,0, carried by the rotatable receiver 16, said. arm

y Y being formed to coincide with the shape of Be it known that 1, JACOB DnNnMAnmf the receiver 16. Adjacent oneend the lever o r arm 2O is bent downwardly to pass through an opening 21 in the receiver 16, the

outer end of the arm terminating in a pin.

22 to engage a cam-slot 23 formed in a block 211 located at the adjacent end of the box 6. The arm 2O is pivoted, intermediate its ends to the receiver 16 by the pin 25. The camslot 23 is cut to provide a rise 26 to throw the arm or lever 2O outwardly, or in other words,V to tilt same. The canrslot 23 imparts positive movement to the receiver 16; in other words, acts to both open and close the same. The rise 26 of the cam-slot 23 is juxtaposed relative to the opening at the end S of the case; hence the arm 2O will be Y tilted to the utmost when pin 22 reaches the apex of the rise of the cam. The tilting of the arm 20 is greatly augmented by the eccentric movement of the carrier 16, which is timed so as to cause the receiver to move bodily toward the opening, at the end of the case, at about the time that pin 22 reaches thc ascent portion 27 of the cam-slot. The eccentric movement of the carrier, combined with the rise of the cani, causes arm 20 to be tilted or moved upon its pivot 25 sutiiciently to force the adjacent end of the cigarette, within the receiver, well out of the opening at the ejecting end of the box. To eject a cigarette the receiver 16 will be rotated. During the rotation of the receiver, a cigarette will be forced into the receiver by pusher 111 and spring 15. At about the time that the cigarette alines with the opening, through which it is ejected, the receiver 16 and arm 20 will perform the operation above referred to. Y

Having described'my invention, what I claim is 1. In a cigarette-case, a box-member openV at one end, a rotatable receiver adjacent said opening, an ejecting arm pivotally oonnected to said receiver, and a cam-member carried by the box to operate said arm.

2. 1n a cigarette case, a ybox-member open at one end, a rotatable semicylindrical eccentrically mounted receiver adjacent said opening, an arm pivotally mounted within the receiver, and a cam to actuate said arm.

v3. In a cigarette-case, a box-member, an ejector withinV same, means to rotate. the ejector, and a cam to operate said ejector to force one end of a cigarette out of said box.

4e 1nV a cigarette-case, ai box-member open at one end thereof, an eecentrioally mounted end of a cigarette out of the receiver When rotatable ejector adjacent thereto, an arm said receiver is rotated. 10 pivotally connected, intermediate its ends, to Signed atV New York city, N. Y., this 2l said receiver, a portion of Said arm projectday of January 1919.

ing throug'h an opening in Said receiver, and J ACOB DENEMARK.

a cani Carried by the box engaging the end fitnessesz of said projecting portion of said arm and BIAURIGE BLOCK,

arranged to aotuate said arm to force one EDWARD A. JARVIS.

Copies of this patent may be obtained for ve cents each, by addressing the Commissioner of Patents, Washington, D. C. 

